Song inspired by the PSYCHO movies and Norman Bates! Landscape are a British band, best known for their 1981 hits, "Einstein A Go-Go" and "Norman Bates". Formed in 1974, they toured constantly during the mid to late 1970s, playing rock, punk and jazz venues and releasing two instrumental EPs on their own Event Horizon label. They began experimenting with computer programmed music and electronic drums in the late 1970s making records in the emerging genres of electronic dance music and synthpop.Landscape comprised: Richard James Burgess, Christopher Heaton, Andy Pask, Peter Thoms and John Walters...Landscape - Norman Bates......NORMAN..............BATES........:My name is Norman Bates; I’m just a normal guy.My name is Norman Bates-s-s-s-s.My name is Norman Bates; I’m just a normal guy.My name is Norman Bates-s-s-s-s.My name is Norman Bates; I’m just a normal guy.My name is Norman Bates-s-s-s-s.My name is Norman Bates; I’m just a normal guy.My name is Norman Bates-s-s-s-s.My name is Norman Bates.My name is Norman Bates; I’m just a normal guy.My name is Norman Bates-s-s-s-s.My name is Norman Bates; I’m just a normal guy.My name is Norman Bates-s-s-s-s.Mother! Oh my God!My name is Norman Bates; I’m just a normal guy.My name is Norman Bates-s-s-s-s.My name is Norman Bates; I’m just a normal guy.My name is Norman Bates-s-s-s-s.My name is Norman Bates; I’m just a normal guy.My name is Norman Bates.[Spoken over refrain.]Did Norman murder the girl in the Bates Motel? Yes, or No?To understand the case, you have to go back to the time ten years ago,When the young Norman murdered his mother and her lover.Matricide: perhaps, the most unbearable crime of all.Norman refused to come to terms with the horror of his deed.His mother was still alive. He stole her corpse and preserved it with chemicals.He kept her alive by wearing her clothes; speaking in her voice; thinking her thoughts.He became both mother and son.Norman Bates; normal, healthy young man with regular interests and habits.And Mrs. Bates; a clinging, posessive woman, and a homicidal maniac.When Norman encountered the girl at the motel, his sexual instincts were aroused.He wanted her – desired her.This was too much for the other side of Norman’s personality.In a jealous frenzy, Mother murdered the girl.When two personalities share the same mind, there is always conflict.Now, that conflict is over: Mother has taken over Norman’s mind.Perhaps for all time.Norman Bates no longer exists...From the Tea-Rooms of Mars... to the Hell Holes of Uranus (1981)
SheerZed says
Landscape are highly underated electronic music pioneers. "Einstein A Go Go" is an excellent song. In fact the whole album is superb and I highly recommend it.
Song inspired by the PSYCHO movies and Norman Bates! Landscape are a British band, best known for their 1981 hits, "Einstein A Go-Go" and "Norman Bates". Formed in 1974, they toured constantly during the mid to late 1970s, playing rock, punk and jazz venues and releasing two instrumental EPs on their own Event Horizon label. They began experimenting with computer programmed music and electronic drums in the late 1970s making records in the emerging genres of electronic dance music and synthpop.Landscape comprised: Richard James Burgess, Christopher Heaton, Andy Pask, Peter Thoms and John Walters...Landscape - Norman Bates......NORMAN..............BATES........:My name is Norman Bates; I’m just a normal guy.My name is Norman Bates-s-s-s-s.My name is Norman Bates; I’m just a normal guy.My name is Norman Bates-s-s-s-s.My name is Norman Bates; I’m just a normal guy.My name is Norman Bates-s-s-s-s.My name is Norman Bates; I’m just a normal guy.My name is Norman Bates-s-s-s-s.My name is Norman Bates.My name is Norman Bates; I’m just a normal guy.My name is Norman Bates-s-s-s-s.My name is Norman Bates; I’m just a normal guy.My name is Norman Bates-s-s-s-s.Mother! Oh my God!My name is Norman Bates; I’m just a normal guy.My name is Norman Bates-s-s-s-s.My name is Norman Bates; I’m just a normal guy.My name is Norman Bates-s-s-s-s.My name is Norman Bates; I’m just a normal guy.My name is Norman Bates.[Spoken over refrain.]Did Norman murder the girl in the Bates Motel? Yes, or No?To understand the case, you have to go back to the time ten years ago,When the young Norman murdered his mother and her lover.Matricide: perhaps, the most unbearable crime of all.Norman refused to come to terms with the horror of his deed.His mother was still alive. He stole her corpse and preserved it with chemicals.He kept her alive by wearing her clothes; speaking in her voice; thinking her thoughts.He became both mother and son.Norman Bates; normal, healthy young man with regular interests and habits.And Mrs. Bates; a clinging, posessive woman, and a homicidal maniac.When Norman encountered the girl at the motel, his sexual instincts were aroused.He wanted her – desired her.This was too much for the other side of Norman’s personality.In a jealous frenzy, Mother murdered the girl.When two personalities share the same mind, there is always conflict.Now, that conflict is over: Mother has taken over Norman’s mind.Perhaps for all time.Norman Bates no longer exists...From the Tea-Rooms of Mars... to the Hell Holes of Uranus (1981)
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